Saturday’s Times Record editorial demanded that the Chaffee Crossing softball fields get completed immediately.

Not so fast!

The Times Record editor is more than willing to launch this ill-advised project immediately completely devoid of specifics. 

1.    What accounting procedures, if any, are in place—gate receipts, concession receipts? How are the cash receipts disbursed?
2.    How is a marriage between government & private enterprise to be explained?  A 501c3 non-profit cohabitating with a for-profit endeavor?
3.    Who maintains?  In the case of failure, who is responsible? What degree of maintenance is required?
4.    Who insures and at what cost?
5.    What responsibilities do Files & Webb have and what do they have invested in the project?
6.    How do Files & Webb benefit economically?
7.    That is not FREE dirt work by the National Guard; it is paid for by the producers.

It is said that Chaffee Crossing is public domain and if that is the case by what authority does Ivy Owen have that would allow him to give (not sell) a parcel of land to a government and/or private endeavor?

Another case of citizens being hosed by bureaucrats and politicians.
In the years 2010 & 2011 Univ. of Arkansas campuses in Fayetteville & Fort Smith spent millions on a “extreme makeover”….their words, not mine.  Now the Fayetteville & Fort Smith campuses are back in the trough spending more millions compliments of corrupt politicians and bureaucrats now displaying a saga known as THE STUDENT LIBRARY BRIBE.
Our poor, disadvantaged, downtrodden students have to be bribed to read a book, in that they will now have moveable furniture, new paint, white boards, open spaces, computers, comfortable chairs, swivel top desks, etc. etc. all to make these poor students “feel like they are not so isolated when they come in”.

So-called “educators” & politicians are outright thieves and until the citizens decide to smack-down these upper tier welfare recipients they will continue to drive us into the ground and the poorhouse. 

I have a vision, that vision is Chancellor Beran salivating with his new “education endeavor”.
Joe McCutchen